Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
J Health Psychol. 2022 Feb;27(2):352-362. doi: 10.1177/1359105320953470. Epub 2020 Sep 2.
Stress due to discrimination may contribute to physiological dysregulation and health risk during the postnatal period. This study examined longitudinal associations between gender discrimination and women's cortisol responses to subsequent stress. Mothers ( = 79) reported gender discrimination and completed mother-infant stress tasks with saliva sampling for cortisol at 6, 12, and 18 months postnatal. Multilevel modeling results indicated more overall gender discrimination was associated with higher cortisol. Changes in gender discrimination were not associated with cortisol over time. Gender discrimination may be a factor in women's postnatal stress and associated health risk via the sensitization of physiological stress responses.
由于歧视而产生的压力可能会导致产后生理失调和健康风险。本研究考察了性别歧视与女性随后对压力的皮质醇反应之间的纵向关联。母亲（n=79）报告了性别歧视，并在产后 6、12 和 18 个月进行了母亲-婴儿压力任务，同时进行唾液取样以测量皮质醇。多层次模型结果表明，更多的总体性别歧视与更高的皮质醇水平相关。性别歧视的变化与皮质醇随时间的变化无关。性别歧视可能是女性产后压力和相关健康风险的一个因素，其通过对生理压力反应的敏感化起作用。
